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Real-time insights monitoring and informing Ontario’s response to COVID-19 containing centralized data and collaborative analytics and is community-driven.

COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group

A comprehensive interactive dashboard to visualize Canadian COVID-19 maps and trends.

The ICES dashboard provides an overview of the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of individuals tested and confirmed positive for COVID-19 in Ontario. It includes percent positivity for COVID-19 as well as a breakdown of positive cases by FSA. The dashboard is updated on a weekly basis and was created by ICES (formerly the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences).

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The 501 Blues: How worried should we be about novel SARS-2 variants?

Over the Christmas break news began to circulate of a novel SARS-2 variant, which had appeared in southern England in September 2021 and which has rapidly become the dominant strain of SARS-2 across England. Particularly worrisome is the fact that this new strain of SARS-2 has a mutation known as N501Y, which is known to […]

Journal of a Plague Year

“Pestilence is so common; there have been as many plagues in the world as wars, and yet both plagues and wars find people equally unprepared. The people of our town were no more guilty than anyone else…Why should they have thought about plague, which negates futures, journeys and debate. They considered themselves free, and no […]

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Syed, I. U.
(2021)

Dr. Akwatu Khenti and Dr. Ananya Tina Banerjee review how outbreaks and hospitalizations exist in a nexus of social inequities, systemic racism and neighborhood vulnerabilities.

Dr. Anna Banerji discusses the need for a timely vaccine rollout, and the likelihood of a third wave.

In this Twitter thread, Dr. Ashleigh Tuite recommends a proactive response to COVID-19 variants and warns against viewing the vaccine as an ‘exit strategy.’

In this Twitter thread, Dr. David Fisman highlights the harmfulness of disinformation and the key role that clear and accurate communication plays in effective pandemic responses.

Mishra, S.| Kwong, J.C.| Chan, A.K.| Baral, S.D.
(2020)

Daftary, A.| Mitchell, E.M.H.| Reid, M.J.A.| Fekadu, E.| Goosby, E.
(2018)

Moayedi, Y.| Alba, A.C.| Lee, D.S.| Wijeysundera, H.C.| Ross, H.J.
(2020)

Rochon, P.A.| Wu, W.| Giannakeas, V.| Stall, N.M.
(2020)

Singh, J.A.| Bandewar, S.V.S.| Bukusi, E.A.
(2020)

Smith, P.M.| Oudyk, J.| Potter, G.| Mustard, C.
(2020)

Bindoli, S.| Felicetti, M.| Sfriso, P.| Doria, A.
(2020)

Science, M.| Akseer, N.| Asner, S.| Allen, U.
(2019)

Tuite, A.R.| Greer, A.L.| De Keninck, S.| Fisman, D.N.
(2020)

Coleman, B.L.| Fadel, S.A.| Fitzpatrick, T.| Thomas, S.-M.
(2018)

Zhang, J.C.| Findlater, A.| Cram, P.| Adisesh, A.
(2020)

Sockalingam, S.| Clarkin, C.| Serhal, E.| Pereira, C.| Crawford, A.
(2020)

Robinson, J.L.| Grenier, D.| MacLusky, I.| Allen, U.D.
(2015)

Tuite, A.R.| Fisman, D.N.
(2020)

Silva, D.S.| Dawson, A.| Upshur, R.E.G.
(2016)

Silva, D.S.| Komparic, A.| Upshur, R.E.G.| Gibson, J.| Strike, C.
(2019)

Arabi, Y.M.| Fowler, R.| Balkhy, H.H.
(2016)

Kain, T.| Fowler, R.
(2019)

Caplan, A.L.| Upshur, R.
(2020)

Maxwell, C.| McGeer, A.| Tai, K.F.Y.| Sermer, M.
(2017)

Tan, D.H.S.| Agrawal, R.| Barnabas, R.V.| Giles, J.T.| Dull, P.
(2020)

Zipursky, J.S.| Redelmeier, D.A.
(2020)

Al-Maani, A.| Gold, W.L.| McGeer, A.
(2015)

Soklaridis, S.| Lin, E.| Lalani, Y.| Rodak, T.| Sockalingam, S.
(2020)

Tuite, A.R.| Fisman, D.N.| Greer, A.L.
(2020)

Smith, M.J.| Upshur, R.E.G.
(2020)

Arabi, Y.M.| Fowler, R.| Bright, R.A.| Van Kerkhove, M.D.| Balkhy, H.H.
(2016)

Tsang, T.K.| Lau, L.L.H.| Cauchemez, S.| Cowling, B.J.
(2016)

Andany, N.| Daneman, N.
(2020)

Kaufman, B.G.| Whitaker, R.| Pink, G.| Holmes, G.M.
(2020)

Duggal, A.| Pinto, R.| Rubenfeld, G.| Fowler, R.A.
(2016)

Silverstein, W.K.| Stroud, L.| Cleghorn, G.E.| Leis, J.A.
(2020)

Silverman, M.| Sibbald, R.| Stranges, S.
(2020)

Tuite, A.R.| Ng, V.| Rees, E.| Fisman, D.
(2020)

Tuite, A.R.| Bogoch, I.I.| Fisman, D.
(2020)

Knight, J.| Mishra, S.
(2020)

Galloway, T.| Bowra, A.| Butsang, T.| Mashford-Pringle, A.
(2020)

Kwong, J.C.
(2015)

Smith, M.J.| Upshur, R.E.G.
(2015)

Ortolan, A.| Lorenzin, M.| Felicetti, M.| Doria, A.| Ramonda, R.
(2020)

Pain, C.| Lanius, R.
(2020)

Fisman, D.N.| Greer, A.L.| Hillmer, M.| Tuite, R.
(2020)

Arabi, Y.M.| Fowler, R.| Hayden, F.G.
(2020)

Singh, J.A.
(2020)

Singh, J.A.| Ravinetto, R.
(2020)

Melamed, O.C.| Hauck, T.S.| Buckley, L.| Selby, P.| Mulsant, B.H.
(2020)

Sholzberg, M.
(2020)

Lee, S.G.| Fralick, M.| Sholzberg, M.
(2020)

Senga, M.| Arabi, Y.M.| Fowler, R.A.
(2017)

Gill, D.| Whitehead, C.| Wondimagegn, D.
(2020)

Murthy, S.| Gomersall, C.D.| Fowler, R.A.
(2020)

Lepper, P.M.| Bals, R.| Jüni, P.| von Eynatten, M.
(2020)

Thompson, A.K.
(2016)

Fisman, D.N.| Greer, A.L.| Tuite, A.R.
(2020)

Matukas, L.M.| Dhalla, I.A.| Laupacis, A.
(2020)

Sepulveda, E.R.| Stall, N.M.| Sinha, S.K.
(2020)

Thompson, A.K.| Smith, M.J.| McDougall, C.W.| Bensimon, C.| Perez, D.F.
(2015)

TVO.org speaks with the University of Toronto professor about school reopening, vaccination — and what the province can do to contain COVID-19 in the coming months.

The Ontario COVID-19 Science Advisory Table is a group of scientific experts and health system leaders who evaluate and report on emerging evidence relevant to the COVID-19 pandemic, to inform Ontario’s response. This resource features “What Ontario can learn from Israel’s successful COVID-19 vaccine campaign”.

In this Twitter thread, Dr. David Fisman discusses why initial vaccine prioritization should focus on people most likely to experience adverse outcomes.

In this Twitter thread, Dr. Issac Bogoch discusses “what is needed to avoid undoing out collective efforts & sacrifices as we reopen? And how do we account for more transmissible variants?”

The Black Health Matters Project led by Dr. Roberta Timothy is conducting research on how COVID-19 has impacted African/Black individuals and communities, front line health care workers and essential service workers and how systemic/structural violence are barriers to effective prevention, treatment and management of COVID-19 in the African/Black population.

Sabina Vohra-Miller and DLSPH Dean Adalsteinn Brown discuss the largely invisible storm of anti-science COVID-19 misinformation that is powering isolation, fear and mistrust.

Direct and indirect age standardization my be used to gain insights into the between-country variation in the size and severity of COVID-19 epidemics. Use this tool to generate comparisons.

Use the following tool to estimate the number of imported cases from the US into Ontario by modifying the conditions in the left-hand pane.

Dr. Arjumand Siddiqi discusses what looking at disaggregated data can tell us about how the COVID-19 pandemic is having an unequal impact across the province.

Dr. David Fisman, of DLSPH, in CTV News on the importance of clear communication in controlling a pandemic.

Dr. Alison Thompson, of the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, and Dr. Anna Banerji, of the DLSPH, in CBC News on prioritization of populations for the COVID-19 vaccine.

Dr. Janet Smylie, of the DLSPH, and Dr. Lisa Richardson, of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine, discuss anti-Indigenous discrimination in the medical system.

Dr. Peter Jüni, of the DLSPH, answers questions about COVID-19 on CBC’s Ontario Today.

Dr. Onye Nnorom, of the DLSPH, discusses her study on the experiences of Black physicians.

Dr. Jeff Kwong, of the DLSPH, urges patience following Pfizer vaccine update.

Dr. James Scott, of the DLSPH, tests masks for market place investigation.

Dr. Ross Upshur, of the DLSPH, discusses vaccine development.

Ontario’s government has officially announced its COVID-19 vaccine taskforce.

Dr. Adalsteinn Brown, Dean of the DLSPH, discusses projection models collaboration with Dr. Ashleigh Tuite of DLSPH, Dr. Colin Furness of IHPME and iSchool, Dr. Andrew Morris, and Dr. Isaac Bogoch of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine.

Watch the November 24, 2020, inaugural lecture of the Institute for Pandemics Lecture Series on Health Equity. Focused on racial health inequities in COVID-19 outcomes and highlighting the empirical evidence that has been accumulated thus far, this event explored how advocates and policymakers are taking up the evidence in real-time. The expert panel explored the data and other indicators and examined its implications for using policy and other strategies to dismantle structural, systemic racism.

Additional resources from Dr. Nancy Krieger, the keynote speaker from the Institute for Pandemics lecture, Race, Racism and COVID-19.

This guide is a collection of data, map and visualization resources and tutorials related to COVID-19. The guide is a living document and will be updated as more resources and tutorials become available.

This resource provides updates on the status of COVID-19 cases and outbreaks in the City of Toronto.

A comprehensive interactive dashboard to visualize Canadian COVID-19 maps and trends.

Real-time insights monitoring and informing Ontario’s response to COVID-19 containing centralized data and collaborative analytics and is community-driven.

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